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Nashville, TN -- This Thanksgiving weekend, country and bluegrass music icon Ricky Skaggs will appear on the Fox News Channel’s America’s News HQ for a special visit with host Uma Pemmaraju. In support of his latest CD, Music To My Ears, and in the spirit of Thanksgiving, Skaggs will perform “Nothing Beats A Family,” a tune included on the album. The segment will air this Saturday, November 24 at 12:55 PM EST.

Nashville, TN -- Crossroads/Mountain Home bluegrass music recording artists, Darin and Brooke Aldridge, (www.darinandbrookealdridge.com), announce the November 20th release of their new album, Live at Red, White and Bluegrass.

The first single from the new Jett’s Creek album was released in late October. “Back Home Again” is the first song from The Wait is Over, scheduled to release in February 2013 on Mountain Fever Records. Jett's Creek plays original and traditional classic bluegrass music.

Alto Pass, IL -- Local bluegrass band, The Rural Kings, are releasing a CD, Dandelions, on Sunday, November 18, from 5-8 pm at The Old Feed Store in Cobden. It is a collection of originals, traditionals, and covers, that encompasses bluegrass, americana, swing, and folk genres. The CD features many local musicians, including members of The Giant City Slickers, The Whistle Pigs, Woodbox Gang, Banjovi, and The Bankester Family, in addition to The Rural Kings. border=0 height=200 width=234 /

Bluegrass Unlimited once proclaimed Dewey Farmer "The Best Mandolin Player You've Never Heard." But for those of us who came up in and around the North Carolina bluegrass music scene, the last 3 words of that title were always unnecessary. To us, Dewey was simply the best. A stirring combination of Monroe style down strokes and machine-gun triplets, of traditional fiddle tunes and crazy Andy Statman covers (a contrast revisited to kick off this recording); there is simply no one like Dewey. And besides, that unofficial title was never entirely accurate anyway.

Burlington, MA -- Acclaimed acoustic musicians The Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band will be releasing their live concert album, A Fiddler’s Holiday, on November 20 on Rounder Records. This concert is a musical celebration of the winter holiday season, a time when families gather round hearth and home to keep their spirits warm and bright. The Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band is accompanied by the University of Mary Washington Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dr. Kevin P. Bartram.

Two of the finest and most significant country /folk albums of the ‘70s, John Hartford’s Aereo-Plain and Morning Bugle are being re-issued by Real Gone Music with a new collection, Aereo-Plain/Morning Bugle—the Complete Warner Bros. Recordings.

Greer, SC -- Buffets, Inc. and legendary music icon Charlie Daniels will be bringing holiday cheer to guests and military families alike with the launch of a new Christmas CD called Hallelujah It’s Christmas Time Again starting this week for just $8.99. Available exclusively in Buffets, Inc. restaurants, the CD features a wide range of classic and original holiday music including “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Hallelujah,” as well as a special bonus track reading of Daniels’ “Carolina Christmas Carol.” In the spirit of the holidays, profits from the CD will be donated to the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) for Operation Outdoors, a camp program that assists the children of military personnel during deployment.

Charlottesville, VA -- Rebel Records is proud to announce the release of "The Story Of The Day That I Died", a brand new single from award winning bluegrass music artists Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice. The new song is available to radio programmers today and the complete project, Story Of The Day That I Died, will be released March 12th. Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice won the Song of the Year and the Album of the Year at the 2012 International Bluegrass Music Awards.

The SteelDrivers are back! The three time Grammy nominated bluegrass meets soul band has threaded the roots of bluegrass music with the distinctive threads of their own design, bringing together country and soul to create their own unapologetic hybrid of new music with the old feeling. Hammer Down, their third release on Rounder Records, is set for release February 5, 2013.

Nashville, TN -- Sage Brush Music and Silver Stirrup Music companies are proud to announce the #1 song for bluegrass music group Lou Reid & Carolina's "Carolina Moonshine Man" on the November 2012 Bluegrass Unlimited magazine’s Top 30 Song Chart. The song, written by Ray Edwards, Terry Foust and Lou Reid, appears on Lou Reid and Carolina’s album, Callin' Me Back Home.

Siamese Cousins consists of Edwin Lacy on clawhammer banjo and vocals; and Scott Freeman on mandolin, fiddle, and vocals. Both have more than twenty years of shared musical collaboration with the popular "break-out" group, Skeeter and the Skid marks. The two have also appeared (together and separately) as guests in various venues and on many recordings through the years. Their musical rapport is intricate yet playful, harmonizing so tightly that, at times, it sounds as if their two instruments blend into one. Now, 2 Chairs, No Waiting, is an album that features both instrumental and vocal tracks that cover the realm of the Siamese Cousins' work together.

Young Michigan "rootsgrass" band Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys pack a tight punch. Instrumentally, they can turn on a dime, and their arrangements show a well-developed taste in music. Based on bluegrass traditions but frequently dipping into swing jazz and popular song craft, their sound is deftly guided by the clarion vocals of lead singer Lindsay "Lou" Rilko. Their new album, Release Your Shrouds, marks a remarkable step forward, and that's thanks in part to the relationship between the two singers, Lindsay and Joshua Rilko, which blossomed in their college days and, with their recent marriaqe in July 2011, now forms the core-of the band.

Tom Feller and Chris Hill were born across the Ohio River from each other—Tom in southern Indiana and Chris in northern Kentucky. Both have performed with bands from bluegrass-rich areas of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia—Tom with Jerry Williamson & Redwing, The Larry Stephenson Band, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, and with Nashville songwriter Kim Fox in the group 3 Fox Drive...—Chris with Gerald Evans and Paradise, The Wildwood Valley Boys, the James King Band, and The Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show. If you like traditional bluegrass and classic country music, you’ll love Feller and Hill and the Bluegrass Buckaroos! Their latest album will be available in early February, 2013.

Nashville, TN October 30, 2012 - Nu-Blu has embraced the Gospel tradition of bluegrass with their first all-gospel album, Nail by Nail, now available on Pinecastle Records. This special new project includes the recently released first single, “Martha and Mary” that was written by Becky Buller and Nancy Cardwell. The song debuted earlier this month at #8 on the Bluegrass Today Weekly Top 20. The album was recorded and produced by Nu-Blu at Red Squared Audio, located in Siler City, NC. align=